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Pretty much. And not just via macros.

Lisp languages tend to blend together "runtime" with "load time", and in case of compiled languages, also "compile time". You can write code executing during any one, or any combination of, these phases. You can reuse code between those phases. You can interleave them at will - e.g. by loading more code at runtime, or invoking a compiler, etc.

Well, Lisp macros are mentioned in a footnote at least, and yes, maybe even the oldest version of this idea.

lisp macros are probably newer than forth, but i don't know that they're newer than the words [ and ] in forth. but lisp did permit arbitrary compile-time computation from the beginning, i believe

FEXPRs existed around 1960. Macros slightly later.

MIT AI Memo 57, Timothy P. Hart, MACRO Definitions for LISP, October 1963

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/mit/ai/aim/...

aha, thanks! that's definitely older than forth

Lisp was also the one that taught us that interpreters and compilers for nominally the same language really need to have consistent semantics, e.g. don't lexically scope in the compiler and dynamically scope in the interpreter.

probably so, yes, but forth would be #2